Emboss vs Engraving - What's the difference?
emboss | engraving |
To mark or decorate with a raised design or symbol.
To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, etc.
* Dryden
* Sir Walter Scott
(label) Of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a wood or forest.
(label) To drive (an animal) to extremity; to exhaust, to make foam at the mouth.
*, II.11:
*:And as it commonly happens, that when the Stag begins to be embost , and finds his strength to faile-him, having no other remedie left him, doth yeeld and bequeath himselfe unto us that pursue him, with teares suing to us for mercie.
(obsolete) To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to enclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.
* Milton
(label) To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.
* Spenser
The practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.
An engraved image.
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As verbs the difference between emboss and engraving
is that emboss is to mark or decorate with a raised design or symbol or emboss can be (label) of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a wood or forest while engraving is .As a noun engraving is
the practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.emboss
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) embosen, from (etyl) embocer.Verb
(es)- The papers weren't official until the seal had been embossed on them.
- Then o'er the lofty gate his art embossed / Androgeo's death.
- Exhibiting flowers in their natural colour embossed upon a purple ground.
Etymology 2
Perhaps from . Compare (imbosk).Verb
(es)- in the Arabian woods embossed
- A knight her met in mighty arms embossed .
Anagrams
*engraving
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Noun
(wikipedia engraving) (en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
citation, passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.}}